The Cambridge History of French Thought

Introduction Michael Moriarty; Part I. The Middle Ages to 1789: 1. Medieval French thought David Luscombe; 2. Humanist culture in Renaissance France Ingrid De Smet; 3. Reformers and dissidents Neil Kenny; 4. Rabelais John O'Brien; 5. Moral theories: Aristotelianism and Neostoicism Ullrich Langer; 6. Pyrrhonism John O'Brien; 7. Ramus Raphaële Garrod; 8. Montaigne John O'Brien; 9. Demonology Timothy Chesters; 10. Political and legal thought Sophie E. B. Nichols; 11. Linguistic and literary thought: mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries John D. Lyons; 12. French scholastics in the seventeenth century Roger Ariew; 13. Sceptics and freethinkers Isabelle Moreau; 14. Descartes Gary Hatfield; 15. Augustinianism Michael Moriarty; 16. Spirituality Richard Parish; 17. Pascal Emma Gilby; 18. Cartesianism Steven Nadler; 19. Bayle Ruth Whelan; 20. Ethical, political, and social thought Michael Moriarty; 21. Aesthetics: ancients and moderns Richard Scholar; 22. The querelle des femmes Rebecca Wilkin; 23. The Enlightenment Jenny Mander; 24. Voltaire John Leigh; 25. Diderot Marian Hobson; 26. Rousseau Michael Moriarty; 27. Philosophy and religion: deism, atheism, materialism Caroline Warman; 28. Enlightenment political and social thought A. M. R. De Dijn; 29. The continent of history David McCallam; 30. Enlightenment aesthetic thought Kate E. Tunstall; 31. The Enlightenment and gender Judith Still; 32. Colonialism and slavery Jenny Mander; Part II. From 1789 to the Present Day: 33. French thought on the eve of the Revolution and after Jeremy Jennings; 34. Political thought in the nineteenth century Jeremy Jennings; 35. The Paris School of liberal political economy David Hart; 36. Romanticism Alison Finch; 37. Victor Cousin and eclecticism Benjamin Bacle; 38. Nineteenth-century religious thought Robert Priest; 39. Auguste Comte and positivism Mary Pickering; 40. Race and empire in ninteenth-century France Emmanuelle Saada; 41. Philosophy: epistemological debates and Bergson Daniela S. Barberis; 42. Nation and nationalism Michael Sutton; 43. Twentieth-century French Catholic thought Michael Sutton; 44. Writing modern French history Philip Whalen; 45. Sartre and the art of living with paradox Thomas R. Flynn; 46. Marxism versus humanism Knox Peden; 47. French feminist thought in the twentieth century Diana Holmes; 48. Anticolonialism Emile Chabal; 49. The new liberalism Daniel J. Mahoney; 50. Michel Foucault Michael C. Behrent; 51. Jacques Derrida and deconstruction Paul Rekret; 52. Sociology Daniela S. Barberis; 53. Literary theory Patrick French; Conclusion: the end of French thought? Jeremy Jennings.